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Bjork’s campaign was one of the highest profile on Kickstarter, a US based company founded in 2009 to use its website to raise money for artistic projects.

Kickstarter has funded an array of projects including indie films, stage shows, comics and video games.

Bjork’s campaign had an educational focus: she wanted to develop Biophilia for Android and Windows n order to get it onto the devices of more students, particularly those in the developing world.

The original app, launched in October 2011, offered interactive modules for each song on Björk's Biophilia album as well as games, animation and remixing technology.

When her Kickstarter pitch was launched, the pitch said: "The most interest has come from students from low-income households and schools with underfunded art budgets , and the only way to bring the project to those people is to have biophilia reprogrammed for Android and Windows 8."